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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I’ll happily pay these 30% if it means I get quality services for them:

    • high speed download servers
    • reliable cloud saves
    • automatic, non intrusive updates
    • discussion forums
    • easy mod management
    • friend networking, multiplayer services
    • responsive and uncomplicated support

    (using Steam as an example here)

    People always act like those are to be taken as granted, but if you have ever worked in dev/devops, you would know that there’s a lot of work maintaining each one of them.

    Also, you can use these services for as long as you want, despite paying for them with a single one-time purchase.

    Of course, if the platform doesn’t provide any services or benefits, your point stands. In that case just avoid it.